13626 2011-08-03 19:39:40 +0000 Facilitate grouping of menu items 2011-12-02 20:59:17 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified All All RESOLVED WORKSFORME a11y, a11ytf, a11y_semantics P2 normal --- 1 gcl-0039 contributor ian joshue.oconnor laura.lee.carlson mike public-html-a11y public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 52221 0 gcl-0039 2011-08-03 19:39:40 +0000 In order to facilitate structural or hierarchical navigation and progressive disclosure, the HTML5 specification should emphasize giving names to groupings, including to groups of menu items. The current HTML5 draft specification strongly emphasizes the use of hr elements to divide menu items into groups, rather than recommending methods that allow providing labels for those groups. This prevents the user agent from giving users a meaningful list of sections to navigate through. It looks like some methods are probably supported, such as by using a nested menu element that's labeled by a label element rather than a label attribute, and so would by default be presented inline rather than as a submenu, but they're not discussed in detail or recommended. Use case: Nadia is blind and using a web browser with a screen reader. The document contains a menu structure created with the HTML5 menu element, and it includes some very long menus with many groups of menu items separated by horizontal rules into various groups or sections. As Nadia uses the down arrow key to navigate through the menu items, she has to pause for each one to be read to her, so traversing a long menu takes a long time and a lot of effort. She would prefer to have the menu presented to her in hierarchical fashion that uses progressive disclosure, so she could navigate through the short list of sections, and then through the short list of commands in the desired section, rather than through one long list of items. 53005 1 mike 2011-08-04 05:05:57 +0000 mass-moved component to LC1 60850 2 ian 2011-12-02 20:59:17 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: no spec change Rationale: The spec already supports hierarchical menu structures with labels for subgroups.